Blastphp: A PHP Wrapper for Ncbi Blast Api

Abstract

NCBI BLAST is a most popular bioinformatics framework for finding local similarity between two or more biological sequences. It provides integrative access to various biological databases through web user interface, commandline user interface, and application programming interface. BLASTphp is a lightweight PHP library that wrap's NCBI BLAST's RESTful API into a custom graphical user interface BLAST. The BLASTphp program remotely executes the NCBI BLAST through the HTTP/HTTPS interface and elicits the response in HTML, XML, XML2, JSON2, Text, or Tabular (plain) format. However, it can be easily connected to a webserver and integrated with any SQL database which contain the biological sequences. BLASTphp is freely available under GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), at https://github.com/AshokHub/BLASTphp.